Luciano Serafini

Luciano Serafini is a researcher in the area of Artificial Intelligence. He is currently the head of the Data and Knowledge Management Research Unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler. He graduated in information science with a thesis on logic for knowledge representation. Since 1990 he joined Fondazione Bruno Kessler (before ITC-IRST) as a researcher in the area of logic for knowledge representation and reasoning.  During more than 30 years of research career he contributes with few important ideas in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

In the 90's he contributed to the definition of a formalism called Multi-Context (MC) System for the representation of modular interconnected context-dependent knowledge. MC Systems has a great influence on the semantic web area and in the area of information integration. Between 2000-2010 he worked on semantic matching for the integration of heterogeneous schemas with other researchers in Trento who suggested encoding the problem of matching heterogeneous hierarchical classifications in terms of propositional satisfiability. After 2010, Luciano Serafini started his research about integrating machine learning and logical reasoning, and in 2016 he contributed to the definition of  Logic Tensor Network, one of the first neuro-symbolic architectures. In the last few years, he also has been interested in integrating learning, acting, and planning. His current interests include Embodied Artificial Intelligence, Neuro-Symbolic Integration, Statistical Relational Learning, and integrating Planning, Acting, Perception, and Reasoning. From 2020 he is an EurAI fellow and teaches regular courses on Knowledge representation and learning at the University of Padova.

• Leader of the Data and Knowledge Management Research Unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler


• Leader of the WorkPackage on Models for Integrative Artificial Intelligence of the Spoke 2 - Integrative AI of the Future-AI-Research project.  The WP has the objective of developing well-founded approaches for the integration of heterogeneous AI models (including neural, probabilistic, logical, dynamic and decision models) into a single agent; study of the dynamic of these models due to the interaction of the agent with the environment and the intra-agent integration that happens at the social level.


• Area Chair of ECAI 2026


• Giving a tutorial on neuro-symbolic integration at AIxIA-2024 Bolzano IT, and Declarative AI 2025, Istambul (TR)


• Program Co-Chair of the Special Session on KR & ML at the 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, KR 2023 September 2-8, 2023, Rhodes, Greece


• Member of the editorial board of the Artificial Intelligence.


• Teaching the course on.Knowledge Representation and Learning at the Laurea Magistrale in Data Science at University of Padova (IT)


• EurAI Fellow

• First Order Weighted Model Counting: I'm interested in developing computationally efficient techniquest for weighted model counting in fragments of first order logic extended with additional axioms.


• Integrating Planning, Acting, and Learning: Development of cognitive architectures and algorithms that allows the tight integration of planning, acting, perceiving, learning and reasoning. These type of architectures should suppor the development of Embodied AI agents that are capable to operate and learn in open enviroments.


• Logics for distributed knowledge representation and reasoning. Developement of formal models for integrating different knowledge representation systems.


• Neuro simboli intrgration: Study how knowledge representation frameworks based on logic, can be integrated with subsimbolic models such as probabilistic models and neural networks.